The Sinking Of The Costa Concordia - ROBLOX The Sinking Of The Costa Concordia Servers Description On 13 January 2012, at 1:45 local time, Costa Concordia hit a rock off Isola del Giglio. A 160 ft long gash was made in the hull, then partly capsized onto her starboard side, in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge. Almost half of the ship remained above water. Visits La Costa Concordia (The Last Farewell) - YouTube La Costa Concordia (The Last Farewell) Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later.

Published on Aug 1, 2012 On 13 January 2012, at 21:45 local time (UTC+1), Costa Concordia hit a rock off Isola del Giglio ( WikiMiniAtlas 42°21′55″N 10°55′17″E / 42.36528°N 10.92139°E / 42.36528; 10.92139 (Costa Concordia 2012 grounding)).[4][5] A 50-metre (160 ft) long gash was made in the hull, along 3 compartments of the engine room (deck 0); power to the engines and ship services was cut off. Taking on water, the vessel started to list to port. Without power, the ship drifted astern but was now listing heavily to starboard.[7][22] The ship, pushed by winds laterally, drifted back and grounded near shore, then partly capsized onto her starboard side, in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge.

Almost half of the ship remained above water, but it was in danger of sinking completely into a trough 70 metres (230 ft) deep.[23] She was carrying 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members,[24][25] all but 32 of whom were rescued; as of 22 March 2012 (2012 -03-22)[update], 30 bodies had been found, with two people known to be missing[26][27] and presumed dead.[28] There may have been other people not listed on board.[29] The search for bodies was abandoned at the end of January.[30] An investigation focused on shortcomings in the procedures followed by the crew and the actions of the captain.[5][31] About 300 passengers were left on board, most of whom were rescued by helicopter or motorboats in the area.[31] Category Wreck of the Costa Concordia in Giglio Porto, Italy (Google Maps) - Virtual Globetrotting Giglio Porto , Italy (IT) On 13 January 2012, at 21:45

 local time (UTC+1), Costa Concordia hit a rock off Isola del Giglio.

A 50-metre (164 ft) long gash was made in the hull, along 3 compartments of the engine room (deck 0); power to the engines and ship services was cut off. Taking on water, the vessel started to list to port. Without power, the ship drifted astern but was now listing heavily to starboard. The ship, pushed by winds laterally, drifted back and grounded near shore, then partly capsized onto her starboard side, in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge. Almost half of the ship remained above water, but it was in danger of sinking completely into a trough 70 metres (230 ft) deep. Google Maps Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off coast of Italy - Photos - The Big Picture - Boston.com Costa Concordia cruise ship runs aground off coast of Italy The search continued for those still missing after the Costa Concordia luxury cruise ship smashed into a reef off the coast of Giglio, Italy, and partially sank last weekend. Eleven deaths were confirmed on Tuesday. The shipâs captain, Francesco Schettino, has been accused of manslaughter by prosecutors after he left the ship before all passengers were evacuated.

-- Lloyd Young ( 34 photos total ) A rescuer being lowered on the cruise liner Costa Concordia on Jan. 18 that ran aground in front of the harbor of the Isola del Giglio (Giglio island) after hitting underwater rocks on January 13. Emergency workers fear that the ship could slip from its resting place on a rocky shelf and slip into deeper waters. (Vincenzo Pinto/AFP/Getty Images) 2 The luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia is shown run aground off the coast of Giglio in this Jan. 17, 2012 DigitalGlobe handout satellite photo. Eleven people are confirmed dead and some twenty are still missing from more than 4,200 passengers and crew after the Concordia ran aground two hours into a week-long cruise of the western Mediterranean. (Digitalglobe/Reuters) # 3 Rescuers surround the luxury cruise ship Costa Concordia after it ran aground off the coast of Isola del Giglio island, Italy, gashing open the hull and forcing some 4,200 people aboard to evacuate aboard lifeboats to the nearby Isola del Giglio island, early Saturday, Jan.

14, 2012. About 1,000 Italian passengers were onboard, as well as more than 500 Germans, about 160 French and about 1,000 crew members. (Giorgio Fanciulli/Giglionews.it/Associated Press) # 5 The cruise ship Costa Concordia lies stricken off the shore of the island of Giglio as floating barriers are positioned to prevent pollution of the coasts on Jan. 18, 2012 in Giglio Porto, Italy. The official death toll is now 11, with some twenty people still missing. The rescue operation was temporarily suspended earlier due to the ship moving as it slowly sinks further into the sea. (Tullio M. Puglia/Getty Images) # 6 Rescue divers retrieve a body from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia off the Tuscan island of Giglio on Jan. 17, 2012. Divers searching for survivors inside a stricken cruise ship off the Italian coast found five more bodies on Tuesday, as prosecutors grilled the arrested captain over his role.

The death toll has now risen to 11, leaving some twenty still missing of the 4,200 people on board when the ship went down on Jan. 13. ( Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images) # 7 Captain Francesco Schettino (center) of cruise ship Costa Concordia is escorted into a prison by police officers at Grosseto, after being questioned by magistrates in this still image from a video Jan. 17, 2012. Italian coastguards pleaded angrily with the captain of the stricken super-liner to return to his ship, according to recordings released on Tuesday as divers found five more bodies in the half-submerged wreck of the Costa Concordia. Taking the known death toll to 11, that some 24 people, including a number of German tourists, unaccounted for four days after the giant cruiser carrying more than 4,200 passengers and crew was ripped open by rocks off a Tuscan island. Schettino is accused of multiple manslaughter, causing a shipwreck by sailing too close to shore and abandoning ship before all his passengers and crew scrambled off. (Reuters) # 8 A cameraman films on Jan.

18, 2012 a notice for a missing person from the stricken cruise liner Costa Concordia on the Tuscan island of Giglio. The captain of the Italian cruise liner, Francesco Schettino, returned home to the Amalfi coast under house arrest on Jan. 18, as fears grew that bad weather could hamper rescue efforts on the wreck. Divers, mountain rescue teams and soldiers have so far recovered 11 bodies from the turbid waters of the half-submerged hulk and the surrounding sea. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images) # 9 Italian rescue personnel are seen atop the Costa Concordia cruise liner, two days after it ran aground off the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, Monday, Jan. 16, 2012. The captain of a cruise liner that ran aground and capsized off the Tuscan coast faced accusations from authorities and passengers that he abandoned ship before everyone was safely evacuated as rescuers found another body on the overturned vessel. (Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press) # 15 Underwater photo taken on Jan. 13, 2012, and released by the Italian Coast Guard on Jan.

16 shows a diver inside the cruise ship Costa Concordia, after it ran aground in front of the Isola del Giglio harbor. Pier Luigi Foschi, head of the Costa Crociere line, said the company had commissioned several firms to look at the best way to salvage the 114,500-ton vessel lying on its side. The 290-meter (950-feet) long Costa Crociere, which is 17 decks high, has a large gash in its hull from running on to rocks before it capsized on Friday night. (Italian Coast Guard/AFP/Getty Images) # 19 An helicopter evacuates Marrico Giempietroni, the Costa Concordia's cabin service director after he was rescued from the Costa Concordia on Jan. 15, 2012, after the cruise ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio, late on Jan. 13. (Filippo Monteforte/AFP/Getty Images) # 20 Oil removal ships near the cruise ship Costa Concordia leaning on its side Monday, Jan.

16, 2012, after running aground near the tiny Tuscan island of Giglio, Italy, last Friday night. The rescue operation was called off mid-afternoon Monday after the Costa Concordia shifted a few inches (centimeters) in rough seas. The fear is that if the ship shifts significantly, some 500,000 gallons of fuel may begin to leak into the pristine waters. (Gregorio Borgia/Associated Press) # 22 Rescue workers climb on the Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground off the west coast of Italy, at Giglio island Jan. 16, 2012. Rescue workers searched the half submerged hulk of the Italian cruise ship for people still missing on Monday, more than 48 hours after the huge vessel keeled over. (Max Rossi/Reuters) # 23 Costa Concordia cruise ship that ran aground is seen off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island Jan. 14, 2012. At least eleven people were killed and rescuers were searching for other victims after the Italian cruise ship carrying more than 4,200 people ran aground and keeled over in shallow waters.

(Remo Casilli /Reuters) # 32 This aerial black-and-white video image shot with an infrared camera and made available by the Italian Coastguard Tuesday Jan. 17, 2012 appears to show passengers of shipwrecked cruise liner Costa Concordia slipping down the belly of the luxury liner one-by-one using a rope to reach a lifeboat, bottom left, late Friday Jan. 13, 2012 off Giglio Island, Italy. (Italian Coastguard/Associated Press) # 33 An image grab taken from Sky TV Italy shows passengers and crew members wearing life jackets as they prepare to evacuate the Costa Concordia cruiseship on Jan. 13, 2012 after the ship ran aground and keeled over off the Isola del Giglio after hitting underwater rocks. (AFP/Getty Images) # 34 A cruise ship that ran aground is seen off the west coast of Italy at Giglio island Jan. 14, 2012. The Costa Concordia, a large Italian cruise ship, carrying more than 4,000 people ran aground overnight, took on water and tipped over.

(Giorgio Fanciulli/Reuters) # More links and information Photos Of Costa Concordia Two Years Later - Business Insider print The cruise liner Costa Concordia is pictured during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi On January 13th, 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship hit a rock by the Isola del Giglio off the coast of Tuscany. The ship began to take on water, eventually falling onto its side. There were 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, and in the chaotic scenes that followed as the boat collapsed into the sea, 32 people never made it off. To mark the two-year anniversary, the Associated Press reports , survivors and locals alike held mass in the local church that welcomed in survivors after the disaster. The enormous, 60,000-ton ship has been a grim reminder of the tragedy for the past two years, and even a morbid tourism spot.

The hope is that 2014 will be the year that the ship is gone — in September a grueling 16-hour "parbuckling" process moved the ship back into an upright system, and the current plan is to tow the boat away in summer for dismantling. Flowers released by a relative of a victim float on the sea next to the Costa Concordia cruise liner, following a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy, outside Giglio harbour January 13, 2014.REUTERS/Max Rossi A damaged side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi Mattresses are seen inside the cruise liner Costa Concordia during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi A seagull flies past the side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014.

REUTERS/Max Rossi The side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia is pictured during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi A man fishes in front of the cruise liner Costa Concordia during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi Flowers released by a relative of a victim float on the sea next to the Costa Concordia cruise liner, following a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy, outside Giglio harbour January 13, 2014. REUTERS/Max Rossi Two Years Ago The Costa Concordia Capsized Off The Coast Of Italy — Here's What It Looks Like Now 5,551.15 -4.51 (-0.08%) Two Years Ago The Costa Concordia Capsized Off The Coast Of Italy — Here's What It Looks Like Now Adam Taylor More REUTERS/Max Rossi The cruise liner Costa Concordia is pictured during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014.

On January 13th, 2012, the Costa Concordia cruise ship hit a rock by the Isola del Giglio off the coast of Tuscany. The ship began to take on water, eventually falling onto its side. There were 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members on board, and in the chaotic scenes that followed as the boat collapsed into the sea, 32 people never made it off. To mark the two-year anniversary, the Associated Press reports , survivors and locals alike held mass in the local church that welcomed in survivors after the disaster. The enormous, 60,000-ton ship has been a grim reminder of the tragedy for the past two years, and even a morbid tourism spot. The hope is that 2014 will be the year that the ship is gone — in September a grueling 16-hour "parbuckling" process moved the ship back into an upright system, and the current plan is to tow the boat away in summer for dismantling.

View photos More REUTERS/Max Rossi Flowers released by a relative of a victim float on the sea next to the Costa Concordia cruise liner, following a ceremony to mark the second anniversary of the tragedy, outside Giglio harbour January 13, 2014. View photos More REUTERS/Max Rossi A damaged side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia is seen during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. View photos More REUTERS/Max Rossi Mattresses are seen inside the cruise liner Costa Concordia during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. View photos More REUTERS/Max Rossi A seagull flies past the side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014. View photos More REUTERS/Max Rossi The side of the cruise liner Costa Concordia is pictured during the "parbuckling" operation outside Giglio harbour January 12, 2014.

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Six people are now confirmed dead, including two French passengers and one Peruvian crew member, apparently after jumping into the chilly Mediterranean waters after the wreck. Fourteen more people still remain missing, as search and rescue teams continue their efforts to find survivors. The incident occurred only hours into the cruise, and passengers had not yet undergone any lifeboat drills -- that plus the severe list of the ship made evacuation chaotic and frightening. Captain Francesco Schettino has been arrested on suspicion of involuntary manslaughter, causing a shipwreck and abandoning ship. Gathered here are images of the Costa Concordia, as efforts are still underway to find the fourteen passengers that remain missing. COSTA CONCORDIA ITALY, GROSSETO MONDAY JULY 22 2013 - FIVE CONVICTED Five employees of an Italian cruise company for the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 crew and passengers were convicted in an Italian court on Saturday after it accepted their plea bargains. The longest sentence went to the crisis coordinator for Costa Crociere SpA, the cruise company, who was sentenced to two years and 10 months.

Concordia's hotel director was sentenced to two years and six months while two bridge officers and a helmsman got sentences ranging from one year and eight months to one year and 11 months. The Concordia, on a week-long Mediterranean cruise, speared a jagged granite reef when, prosecutors allege, Schettino steered the ship too close to Giglio's rocky shores as a favor to a crewman whose relatives live on the island. If found guilty, he faces up to 20 years in prison. Schettino has denied the charges and insisted that the rock was not in nautical maps. Five employees of an Italian cruise company were convicted Saturday of manslaughter in the Costa Concordia shipwreck that killed 32 people, receiving sentences of less than three years that lawyers for victims and survivors criticized as too lenient. The guilty verdicts for multiple manslaughter and negligence were the first reached in the sinking of the cruise liner carrying more than 4,000 crew and passengers near the Tuscan shore in January 2012. The ship's captain, the only remaining defendant, was denied a plea bargain and is being tried separately.

He faces up to 20 years, if convicted of manslaughter, causing the shipwreck and abandoning the ship. Schettino is charged with manslaughter for causing the January 2012 shipwreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio and abandoning the vessel with thousands aboard. On Saturday, lawyers representing the 32 victims of the shipwreck said the sentences of the plea bargain ï¿½ a fraction of what is usually handed down for manslaughter ï¿½ were inadequate given the gravity of the disaster. "It seems like a sentence for illegal construction," said lawyer Massimiliano Gabrielli. "It's an embarrassment." Another lawyer for victims, Daniele Bocciolini, called the sentences "insufficient" and questioned the prosecutors' hypothesis placing the lion's share of the blame on Capt. Francesco Schettino. The five employees of the Costa Crociere SpA cruise company were charged for their respective roles in the nautical maneuver that put the ship in peril, evacuation and response to the emergency. The longest sentence went to the company's crisis coordinator, who was sentenced to two years and 10 months.

Concordia's hotel director was sentenced to two years and six months, while two bridge officers and a helmsman got sentences ranging from one year and eight months to one year and 11 months. The bridge officials and helmsman were also convicted of a charge of causing a shipwreck, in addition to multiple manslaughter and negligence. The court's reasoning for its decision will be released within 90 days, as is standard in Italy. Prosecutors accused the crisis coordinator, who wasn't aboard the ship, of downplaying the severity of the emergency and delaying adequate response, while the hotel director was charged for his role in the evacuation, described by passengers as chaotic. The helmsman was blamed for steering the ship in the wrong direction after Schettino ordered a corrective maneuver. Prosecutor Francesco Verusio said the convictions confirmed investigators' version of events. "I don't think there are any more doubts about the responsibility that falls above all on the shoulders of Schettino," Verusio said. Schettino is charged with manslaughter for causing the shipwreck off the Tuscan island of Giglio and abandoning the vessel with thousands aboard. That trial opened this week, and was continued after two hearings until the end of September.

The Concordia, on a week-long Mediterranean cruise, speared a jagged granite reef when, prosecutors allege, Schettino steered the ship too close to Giglio's rocky shores as a favor to a crewman whose relatives live on the island. Schettino has denied the charges and insisted that the rock was not in nautical maps. The reef sliced a 70-meter-long (230-foot) gash in the hull. Seawater rushed in, causing the ship to rapidly lean to one side until it capsized, then drifted to a rocky stretch of seabed just outside the island's tiny port. Survivors have described a delayed and confused evacuation. The bodies of two victims were never found, but they were declared dead after a long search. Costa Crociere, part of the American-based Carnival Corporation, agreed to pay a $1.3m (ï¿½860,000) fine in April to settle possible criminal charges. Most passengers have already accepted compensation of about 11,000 euros ($14,200: ï¿½9,400) each, but remaining groups of survivors are holding out for more.

LATEST 16 DECEMBER 2012 Ever since the wreck of the Costa Concordia 11 months ago, the huge Italian luxury liner has been sitting, semi-submerged, off the coast of Tuscany, looking like a big, beached whale . It's the largest passenger ship ever capsized, easily surpassing the Titanic. Removing the ship has turned out to be the most complicated, the most expensive, the most daunting and the riskiest salvage operation ever. The Costa Concordia is a rusting carcass, sitting pon two underwater mountain peaks. A clock remains frozen in time, marking the hour and minute when the ship lost power. Below the waterline ghostly vestiges of the ship's contents litter the ocean floor in what the Italian authorities have designated an official crime scene. Thirty people died; two are still missing. Nick Sloane is the senior salvage master, a South African . Two salvage teams working together plan to roll the 60,000-ton ship in one piece onto an underwater platform, raise it and then float it away so it can be cut up for scrap. To keep things in perspective, this ship is three football fields long.

The actual work is being shared by Nick Sloane's Titan Salvage, an American company, and Micoperi, an Italian engineering firm. Sergio Girotto is the company's project director, in charge of re-floating a 60,000-ton ship filled with seawater. The engineers are going to, in effect, weld a new ship onto the shipwreck, beginning with the construction of towering steel boxes called "sponsons". We wish them the best of luck with that and will report on the project in the coming months. CAPTAIN FRANCESCO SCHETTINO NEGLIGENCE CHARGES March 2102 "That evening Schettino had left his reading glasses in the cabin and repeatedly asked Ambrosio to look at the radar to check the route," Ambrosio's lawyer Salvatore Catalano said outside a pre-trial hearing on the accident on Saturday. Ambrosio had made the allegation about Schettino, 51, to investigating magistrates at previous hearings, lawyer Salvatore Catalano added. Schettino has said that the rock hit by the cruise liner was not on his navigational charts.

The captain has acknowledged that he brought the ship too close to the shore, but he says he was not the only one to blame for the tragedy. Catalano said first officer Ambrosio ordered the evacuation of the listing vessel before the captain had made up his mind to do it. "He ordered the lifeboats to be put to sea from deck number four," Catalano said. None of those under investigation attended the closed-door hearing in the Tuscan city of Grosseto, which was held in a theatre to accommodate hundreds of victims' relatives, survivors and lawyers for all sides. Schettino's lawyer, Bruno Leporatti, did not specifically address the latest accusations levelled by the first officer against the captain, who has already been held up to condemnation and ridicule around the world. Schettino is accused of a string of charges including multiple manslaughter and abandoning the 114,500-tonne liner before the evacuation of all passengers and crew. He is under arrest at his home in Meta di Sorrento , near Naples.

BACKGROUND MS Costa Concordia was a Concordia-class cruise ship operated by Costa Crociere (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation) and built by the Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente yards in Italy. The name Concordia was intended to express the wish for "continuing harmony, unity, and peace between European nations." Costa Concordia was the first of the Concordia class cruise ships, followed by sister ships Costa Serena, Costa Pacifica, Costa Favolosa and Costa Fascinosa, and Carnival Splendor built for Carnival Cruise Lines. When the 114,137 GT Costa Concordia and her sisters entered service, they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130,000 GT Dream class cruise ships. On 13 January 2012 at about 9:45 pm, in calm seas and overcast weather, under command of Captain Francesco Schettino, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio, off the western coast of Italy about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Rome .

This tore a 50 m (160 ft) gash on the port (left) side of her hull, which almost immediately flooded parts of the engine room and caused loss of power to her propulsion and electrical systems. With water flooding in and listing, the ship drifted back to Giglio Island, where she grounded just 500 m (550 yd) north of the village of Giglio Porto, lying on her starboard (right) side in shallow water with most of her starboard side under water. Despite the gradual sinking of the ship, its complete loss of power, and its proximity to shore in calm seas, an order to abandon ship was not issued until over an hour after the initial impact. Although international maritime law requires all passengers to be evacuated within 30 minutes of an order to abandon ship, the evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours and not all passengers were evacuated. Of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 30 bodies have been located, and two more passengers are missing and presumed dead .

Concept and construction The largest Italian cruise ship ever conceived, Costa Concordia was ordered on 19 January 2004 by Carnival Corporation in Fincantieri and built in the Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa, as yard number 6122. At the vessel's launch at Sestri Ponente on 2 September 2005, the champagne bottle, released by model Eva Herzigovï¿½, failed to break, an inauspicious omen in maritime superstition. The ship was delivered to Costa on 30 June 2006. She cost ï¿½450 million (ï¿½372 million, US$570 million ) to build. Description Costa Concordia is 290.20 metres (952 ft 1 in) long, with a beam of 35.50 metres (116 ft 6 in) and a draught of 8.20 metres (26 ft 11 in).

She is equipped with a diesel -electric propulsion with six 12-cylinder Wï¿½rtsilï¿½ 12V46C four-stroke medium-speed diesel generating sets with a combined output of 75.6 megawatts (101,400 hp) and two 21-megawatt electric motors connected to fixed-pitch propellers . Her service speed is 19.6 knots (36 km/h; 23 mph), but during sea trials, she achieved a speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph). Deck 13 Polonia Amenities Costa Concordia has approximately 1,500 cabins; 505 have private balconies and 55 have direct access to Samsara Spa and are considered Spa staterooms; 58 suites have private balconies and 12 have direct access to the spa.

Costa Concordia has one of the world's largest exercise facility areas at sea, the Samsara Spa, a two-level, 6,000 m2 (64,600 sq ft) fitness center, with gym, a thalassotherapy pool, sauna, Turkish bath and a solarium. The ship had four swimming pools, two with retractable roofs, five jacuzzis, five spas, and a poolside movie theater on the main pool deck. There are five onboard restaurants, with Club Concordia and Samsara taking reservations-only dining. There are thirteen bars, including a cigar and cognac bar and a coffee and chocolate bar. Entertainment options include a three-level theatre, casino, and a futuristic disco. There is a children's area equipped with video game products. The ship has a Grand Prix motor racing simulator and an internet cafï¿½. Accidents and incidents 2008 bow damage On 22 November 2008, Costa Concordia suffered damage to her bow when high winds over the Sicilian city of Palermo pushed the ship against its dock. There were no injuries and repairs started soon after.

2012 grounding and partial sinking On 13 January 2012, at 21:45 local time (UTC+1), Costa Concordia hit a rock off Isola del Giglio (42ï¿½21′55″N 10ï¿½55′17″E). A 50-metre (164 ft) long gash was made in the hull, along 3 compartments of the engine room (deck 0); power to the engines and ship services was cut off. Taking on water, the vessel started to list to port. Without power, the ship drifted astern but was now listing heavily to starboard. The ship, pushed by winds laterally, drifted back and grounded near shore, then partly capsized onto her starboard side, in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge. Almost half of the ship remained above water , but it was in danger of sinking completely into a trough 70 metres (230 ft) deep.

She was carrying 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew members, all but 32 of whom were rescued; as of 22 March 2012, 30 bodies had been found, with two people known to be missing and presumed dead. There may have been other people not listed on board. The search for bodies was abandoned at the end of January. An investigation focused on shortcomings in the procedures followed by the crew and the actions of the captain. About 300 passengers were left on board, most of whom were rescued by helicopter or motorboats in the area. Salvage Salvage experts Smit International assessed removal of Costa Concordia and her 2,380 tonnes of fuel. Smit assessed that any salvage operation could take up to ten months, and the ship may be a constructive total loss. Smit were contracted to remove her fuel, and during the operation it was reported that the ship had shifted 60 cm (23.6 in) since grounding, but there was no immediate prospect of her breaking up or sinking deeper.

Following a competitive tender, in May 2012 it was announced that Titan Salvage and Italian firm Micoperi had won the salvage contracts. Their plan, expected to cost $300m and therefore expected to be the most expensive salvage ever, is to: *Secure the hull to the land using steel cables, to stop her falling into the deeper ocean *Build a horizontal underwater platform below the ship *Bring the hull to vertical, by winching the hull onto the platform *Attach airtight tanks to either side of the hull *Refloat the hull and tanks *Recovery tow to an Italian port Regulatory and industry response Corrado Clini, Italy's Minister of Environment, said that saluting, a "custom that has resulted in an outcome visible to all", should no longer be tolerated. On 23 January 2012, UNESCO asked Italy to reroute cruise ships to avoid sailing too close to "culturally and ecologically important areas", and on 1 March, Italy excluded large ships from sailing closer than two miles from marine parks. The European Maritime Safety Agency was in the process of conducting a review of maritime safety when the accident occurred.

On 24 January 2012, Transport Commissioner Siim Kallas told the Transportation Committee of the European Parliament that lessons learned from the loss of Costa Concordia would be taken into account. British MEP Jacqueline Foster warned against "trial by television and trial by newspapers", a view that was backed by fellow British MEP Brian Simpson, who said that it was "good practice to wait for the official report". On 18 January 2012, the Chairman of the United States House Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure announced that it would hold a hearing, conducted jointly with the Committee's Maritime Transportation Subcommittee, to "review the events of this specific incident, current safety measures and training requirements". Testimony and statements at the 29 February hearing primarily promoted North American cruise ships as being safe. Gianni Scerni, the chairman of Registro Italiano Navale (RINA), the classification society that issued Costa Concordia a certificate of seaworthiness and safety management in November 2011, resigned on 18 January 2012. The Cruise Lines International Association (CLIA), the European Cruise Council (ECC) and the Passenger Shipping Association adopted a new policy requiring all embarking passengers to participate in muster drills before departure.

On 29 January 2012, at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Holland America Line made one passenger disembark from the cruise ship MS Westerdam for "non-compliance" during a mandatory muster drill. On 24 April, the CLIA and the ECC introduced new policies: bridge officers must agree on the route before departing; ships must carry more lifejackets; and access to the bridge must be limited. In an action some parliamentarians said was a reaction to the wrecking of the Costa Concordia, the Italian government withdrew proposed legislation that would have reduced current restrictions on mineral exploration and production. On July 8, 2012 CNN reported that the disaster brought changes to safety and evacuation procedures in the cruise industry. Carnival, the parent line of Costa, and several other cruise lines now require safety instruction, referred to as muster drills, before leaving port. The new muster policy consists of 12 specific emergency instructions, which include providing information on when and how to don a life jacket, where to muster and what to expect if there is an evacuation of the ship. Media Coverage of the shipwreck dominated international media in the days after the disaster.

The New York Times called the incident "a drama that seemed to blend tragedy with elements of farce". Phillip Knightley called it the "most significant event in modern maritime history" because "every single safety procedure designed to make sea travel safe failed miserably". Francesco Schettino was dubbed "Captain Coward" by the Daily Mail in the UK. UK's Channel 4 television commissioned and broadcast two programmes about the disaster. Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Costa Concordia, broadcast on 31 January 2012, explored how and why the ship went down. The Sinking of the Concordia: Caught on Camera, broadcast on 11 April 2012, provided a minute-by-minute anatomy of the Costa Concordia disaster, made almost entirely from passengers' mobile phone and video camera footage. The documentary also featured thermal imaging footage of the stricken ship taken by the rescue helicopter, together with pilot commentary, and a recording of the conversation between the Coast Guard and the captain, during which the Coast Guard ordered Captain Schettino to return to his ship.

In Italy Corriere della Sera stated that Italy owed the world a "convincing explanation" for the wreck and called for harsh punishment of those found responsible. Il Giornale said the wreck was a "global disaster for Italy". Il Messaggero said there was "anguish over those still missing". La Repubblica called the event "a night of errors and lies". La Stampa criticized the captain for not raising the alarm and refusing to go back on board the ship. Italian commentators reflected on the contrast between Schettino and De Falco and what it said about the national character. They represented "the two souls of Italy", according to Aldo Grasso in Corriere della Sera. "On the one hand a man hopelessly lost, a coward who shirks his responsibility as a man and an officer, indelibly stained. The other grasps the seriousness of the situation immediately and tries to remind the first of his obligations." Some saw parallels between the incident and the country's recent political upheavals. "To see someone that in a moment of difficulty maintains steady nerves is consoling because that is what we need", another Corriere della Serra columnist, Beppe Severgnini, told The New York Times .

"Italy wants to have steady nerves because we've already done the cabaret route." De Falco's exasperated order to Schettino, "Vada a bordo, cazzo!" became a catchphrase in Italy. T-shirts with the phrase were soon printed and sold across the country. It has also been used on Twitter and Facebook. Another Italian newspaper, Il Libero, used it in a cartoon caricaturing German chancellor Angela Merkel , shown rowing away from a ship named Europa Discordia and painted with the symbol of the European Union. It was a reaction to Germany's refusal to do more, as Monti had requested, to help lower Italy's borrowing costs. Titanic comparison Several media outlets have compared the ship to the Titanic . Survivor Valentina Capuano is a niece of a man who died in the Titanic tragedy 100 years earlier. Capuano said she was "dumbstruck" that history seemed to be repeating itself. Some passengers said that the Titanic theme "My Heart Will Go On" performed by Cï¿½line Dion , was playing in a restaurant when the ship hit the rock.

Several media commentators contrasted the "women and children first" attitude generally prevailing on the RMS Titanic to the "first come, first served" attitude said to be more prevalent on the Costa Concordia, though no law requires preferential treatment of women and children when evacuating a ship in distress. Memorial The mayor of Giglio, Sergio Ortelli, and Costa Cruises are in agreement that the massive rock to be removed from the side of the vessel should be suitably positioned on the island as a memorial to the 32 people who lost their lives. Ortelli anticipates the rock will "most likely" be positioned "close to the harbour entrance so that visitors and locals can see it clearly and pay their respects to the victims. What happened that night is something Giglio will never forget and the rock will be a fitting memorial." The cost of removing the 80-ton rock is estimated at ï¿½40,000. There is no date yet set for the creation of the memorial. Culture and media In 2010, Costa Concordia provided the decadent setting for Jean-Luc Godard's film Film Socialisme.

A documentary broadcast in the United Kingdom, titled Terror at Sea: The Sinking of the Costa Concordia, and another first broadcast on 11 April 2012 on Channel 4, titled The Sinking of the Concordia: Caught on Camera, featured footage filmed by the passengers and crew. Furthermore, a documentary, titled Cruise Ship Disaster: Inside the Concordia, was first broadcast on the Discovery Channel, and another, titled Inside Costa Concordia: Voices of Disaster, was first broadcast by National Geographic . The season 39 Nova episode Why Ships Sink discusses the sinking of the Concordia. The 'Bluefish' by Bluebird Marine Systems Ltd, is designed to carry Scorpion anti pirate weapons. A fleet of such autonomous vessels could be the basis of an international peacekeeping, and/or emergency rescue force. The COLREGs compliant navigation system that is being developed as project 'Bluefish' could have prevented the sinking of the Costa Concordia. This might be of interest to fleet operators. This website is copyright ï¿½ 1991- 2013 Electrick Publications. All rights reserved. The bird logo and names Solar Navigator and Blueplanet Ecostar are trademarks ï¿½.

The Blueplanet vehicle configuration is registered ï¿½. All other trademarks hereby acknowledged and please note that this project should not be confused with the Australian: ' World Solar Challenge 'ï¿½which is a superb road vehicle endurance race from Darwin to Adelaide. Max Energy Limited is an educational charity working hard to promote world peace . Costa Concordia, Savona, Liguria, Italy, Europe - YouTube Costa Concordia, Savona, Liguria, Italy, Europe Want to watch this again later? Sign in to add this video to a playlist. Need to report the video? Sign in to report inappropriate content. Rating is available when the video has been rented. This feature is not available right now. Please try again later. Uploaded on Dec 16, 2011 MS Costa Concordia is a Concordia-class cruise ship built in 2004 by the Fincantieri's Sestri Ponente yards in Italy and operated from 2005 by Costa Crociere (a subsidiary of Carnival Corporation). The name Concordia was intended to express the wish for "continuing harmony, unity, and peace between European nations".

Costa Concordia was the first of the Concordia-class cruise ships, followed by sister ships Costa Serena, Costa Pacifica, Costa Favolosa and Costa Fascinosa, and Carnival Splendor built for Carnival Cruise Lines. When the 114,137 GT Costa Concordia and her sisters entered service, they were among the largest ships built in Italy until the construction of the 130,000 GT Dream-class cruise ships. On 13 January 2012 at about 9:45 pm, in calm seas and overcast weather, under command of Captain Francesco Schettino, Costa Concordia struck a rock in the Tyrrhenian Sea just off the eastern shore of Isola del Giglio, off the western coast of Italy about 100 km (62 mi) northwest of Rome. This tore a 50 m (160 ft) gash on the port (left) side of her hull, which almost immediately flooded parts of the engine room and caused loss of power to her propulsion and electrical systems.

With water flooding in and listing, the ship drifted back to Giglio Island, where she grounded just 500 m (550 yd) north of the village of Giglio Porto, lying on her starboard (right) side in shallow water with most of her starboard side under water. Despite the gradual sinking of the ship, its complete loss of power, and its proximity to shore in calm seas, an order to abandon ship was not issued until over an hour after the initial impact. Although international maritime law requires all passengers to be evacuated within 30 minutes of an order to abandon ship, the evacuation of Costa Concordia took over six hours and not all passengers were evacuated. Of the 3,229 passengers and 1,023 crew known to have been aboard, 30 people died, and two more passengers are missing and presumed dead. The largest Italian cruise ship ever conceived, Costa Concordia was ordered on 19 January 2004 by Carnival Corporation in Fincantieri and built in the Sestri Ponente yard in Genoa, as yard number 6122.

At the vessel's launch at Sestri Ponente on 2 September 2005, the champagne bottle, released by model Eva Herzigová, failed to break, an inauspicious omen in maritime superstition. The ship was delivered to Costa on 30 June 2006. She cost €450 million (£372 million, US$570 million) to build. Costa Concordia is 290.20 metres (952 ft 1 in) long, with a beam of 35.50 metres (116 ft 6 in) and a draught of 8.20 metres (26 ft 11 in). She has a diesel-electric power plant consisting of six 12-cylinder Wärtsilä 12V46C four-stroke medium-speed diesel generating sets with a combined output of 75.6 megawatts (101,400 hp). These main generators provided power for all shipboard consumers from propulsion motors to hotel functions like lighting and air conditioning.

The ship was propelled by two 21-megawatt electric motors coupled to fixed-pitch propellers. Her service speed was 19.6 knots (36 km/h; 23 mph), but during sea trials, she achieved a speed of 23 knots (43 km/h; 26 mph). Costa Concordia has approximately 1,500 cabins; 505 have private balconies and 55 have direct access to Samsara Spa and are considered Spa staterooms; 58 suites have private balconies and 12 have direct access to the spa. Costa Concordia has one of the world's largest exercise facility areas at sea, the Samsara Spa, a two-level, 6,000 m2 (64,600 sq ft) fitness center, with gym, a thalassotherapy pool, sauna, Turkish bath and a solarium. The ship has four swimming pools, two with retractable roofs, five jacuzzis, five spas, and a poolside movie theatre on the main pool deck. There are five on-board restaurants, with Club Concordia and Samsara taking reservations-only dining.

There are thirteen bars, including a cigar and cognac bar and a coffee and chocolate bar. Entertainment options include a three-level theatre, casino, and a futuristic disco. There is a children's area equipped with video game products. The ship has a Grand Prix motor racing simulator and an internet café. On 22 November 2008, Costa Concordia suffered damage to her bow when high winds over the Sicilian city of Palermo pushed the ship against its dock. There were no injuries and repairs started soon after. On 13 January 2012, at 21:45 local time (UTC+1), Costa Concordia hit a rock off Isola del Giglio (42°21′55″N 10°55′17″E). A 53-metre (174 ft) long gash was made in the hull, along 3 compartments of the engine room (deck 0); power to the engines and ship services was cut off. Taking on water, the vessel started to list to port. Without power, the ship drifted astern but was now listing heavily to starboard.

The ship, pushed by winds laterally, drifted back and grounded near shore, then partly capsized onto her starboard side, in an unsteady position on a rocky underwater ledge. Category Astrology of the Costa Concordia Shipwreck Daykeeper Journal - Astrology, Consciousness and Transformation Daykeeper Journal Astrology of the Costa Concordia Shipwreck by Alex Miller on January 19, 2012 On Friday, 13 January 2012, at 9:42 PM local time, the cruise ship Costa Concordia struck a rock and partially sank off the Tuscan coast of Italy at Isola del Giglio. Coming too close to shore, allegedly to give islanders a better glimpse of the light-bedecked ship, the impact ripped a 160-foot gash on the port side, whereupon the vessel quickly listed and began to fill with water. A very disorderly exit of the 4,229 passengers and crew ensued, with 11 deaths known as of January 17, another 29 persons still missing.

The captain, Francesco Schettino, is alleged to have abandoned ship and is currently under arrest pending investigation of charges for involuntary manslaughter and abandoning ship before passengers were evacuated. Schettino maintains that his course, although altered, was presumed to be safe, as the rock which he struck was not listed on nautical charts of the area. By tonnage, the Costa Concordia is the largest vessel in history to be shipwrecked; provisional structural analysis suggests the ship is a constructive total loss. Costa Concordia, the largest vessel ever shipwrecked An astrological chart set for the moment of impact shows the Moon (water, sailors, ships) at 20 Virgo conjunct Mars (accidents) at 22 Virgo, both rising on the 17 Virgo Ascendant and conjoined the Pulsar (newsworthy events, the media) at 18 Virgo, squared the Black Holes at 18 and 19 Sagittarius. Asteroid Italia (#477, for Italy, in whose waters the vessel sank) is exactly semisextile the Moon from 20 Leo.

The Sun at 22 Capricorn exactly trines Mars and is within the event horizon, or orb of influence, of the Black Hole at 19 Capricorn and exactly squared another Black Hole at 22 Libra, indicating sudden, dramatic and unexpected reversals of fortune, the substitution of a parallel reality for the one currently pertaining. The Sun is also tightly squared TNO Eris (division, stress, strife) at 21 Aries and exactly trine TNO Sedna (named for an Inuit goddess of the sea, noted for having been cast overboard and drowned by her father) at 22 Taurus (Sedna thus forming a Grand Trine with Mars and the Sun).

An exact combination of Venus (pleasure cruises) and Neptune (the sea, confusion, flooding) on the Black Hole (reality transformation) at 29 Aquarius is further enhanced with asteroids Toscanos (#96086, for the Tuscan coast off which the accident occurred) at 20 Aquarius, Atropos (named for the Greek Fate who severs the thread of life at death) at 27 Aquarius and Lachesis (the Fate known as “the Allotter,” who determines the span of life) at 28 Aquarius. Close beside in early Pisces are centaur Chiron (wounds, wounding, with 64 persons injured in the disaster) at 2 Pisces and asteroid Gigli (#10371, for Isola del Giglio) at 5 Pisces.

The Costa Concordia resting on submerged rocks just off the island of Giglio Pluto (death, evacuation) and Mercury (navigation, nautical charts) combine exactly at 7 Capricorn, with asteroid Icarus (rash, reckless actions) conjoined from 4 Capricorn, and asteroid Concordia (#58) within orb at 2 Capricorn, itself tightly squared Uranus (accidents, disasters) at 1 Aries. Clustered at the 15 Gemini Midheaven, providing high visibility and notoriety, are TNO Chaos (the confused and disorderly exit) at 13 Gemini and asteroid Francis (#2050, representing the captain, Francesco Schettino) at 11 Gemini, all points conjoined the reality-warping Black Hole at 13 Gemini. Asteroid Bacchus at 12 Sagittarius opposes Francesco and is conjoined the IC, leading to the question of whether alcohol (Bacchus) was a foundational element (IC) of the tragedy.

Finally, asteroids Poseidon (the sea), Requiem (the funeral mass for the dead) and Osiris (Egyptian god of the dead) combine at 10, 11 and 13 Scorpio, inconjunct Francesco/Chaos and squared to a pair of Black Holes at 12 and 13 Aquarius. Share this: Advertisements Headlines in the Stars As above, so below. Often in the course of a month we come across news items that just scream for astrological interpretation, but don’t really merit the full treatment of an article. The use of personal named asteroids greatly increases the topical nature of these stories, and shows to just how great an extent the skies above reflect the doings here on Earth. It’s unlikely anyone could look at these patterns forming in advance and predict just how they’ll manifest, but in hindsight, it’s truly astounding to see the inner workings of the cosmos, and the creative ways these bits of space debris make themselves known. So we’ll be featuring some key moments from the month, with diagrams to show the patterns, and brief headlines to describe the related event, color coded so you can see the links between them.

We hope you’ll find them as fascinating as we do. [Note: all asteroid data retrieved from the online ephemeris at .] Author Spotlight Alex Miller Alex Miller is a professional writer and astrologer, author of The Black Hole Book (now available as a revised and expanded eBook on Amazon.com ) and The Urban Wicca, former editor of "The Galactic Calendar," and past president of The Philadelphia Astrological Society. His pioneering work with Black Holes in astrological interpretation began in 1991, when his progressed Sun unwittingly fell into one. Alex recently published a new cat rescue memoir, Cat O'Nine Tails . Alex can be reached for comment or services at alex@daykeeperjournal.com .

Question: On 13 January 2012, what ship hit a rock off Isola del Giglio?
Answer: Costa Concordia